Why I’m Excited About Lumo — A Private AI That Works FOR You, Not ON You
- Peter Dilg
- Jul 24
- 3 min read
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how we live, work, and create. From scheduling meetings to modeling molecules, AI has the potential to solve problems both mundane and monumental. But here’s the catch: the way most AI tools are built today, you are not the client—you’re the product.
Think back to the early internet. Remember how it promised connection, freedom, empowerment—and then quietly turned into a data-harvesting machine? The same story is unfolding again. Big Tech is leveraging AI not to serve people, but to monetize them. The result? An acceleration of the surveillance capitalism model, built on advertising, profiling, and mass data extraction.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
🔒 Meet Lumo: An AI That Respects Your Privacy
I’ve recently started experimenting with a new tool called Lumo, developed by Proton—the same privacy-first company behind Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Pass. Proton is a Swiss-based company with its headquarters in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland.
Lumo is part of what they call the “EuroStack”: a European alternative to the data-hungry tech giants of the U.S. and China.
Lumo is an AI assistant that keeps no logs, encrypts every chat end-to-end, and never uses your conversations to train its models. That means your legal documents, private health questions, sensitive business plans, or creative ideas stay yours—fully encrypted, never sold, shared, or stored.
🧠 So What Can Lumo Do?
Pretty much everything you’d expect from a modern AI assistant:
Summarize documents
Rewrite personal or professional emails
Search the web for up-to-date info
Analyze uploaded files
Connect with your Proton Drive for encrypted file access
…and it does all this without compromising your privacy.
👻 Bonus: Ghost Mode
If you're logged in, your chats are saved securely with zero-access encryption. But flip on Ghost Mode, and your chat disappears forever once you close it—leaving no digital trace.
💡 Why This Matters (A Lot)
Most people still don’t realize just how much private data gets handed over when using AI tools today. AI assistants can absorb far more personal information than any web search history ever did—and most users are giving that data away without knowing it.
But with Lumo, that risk disappears. No logs. No training on your data. No creepy tracking. Just real help, from an assistant that works for you, not against you.
📱 Try It Yourself—No Account Needed
What I love most? You can try Lumo completely free and without even creating an account. Just head over to lumo.proton.me, or download the app on Android or iOS, and start typing.
If you already have a Proton account, your encrypted chat history syncs across devices—but still only readable by you.
🧭 Building a European AI Future
Lumo is just the beginning. Proton is investing €100 million into building secure, transparent, Europe-based AI infrastructure. That means better legal protections, technological independence, and a future where privacy isn’t optional—it’s the default.
As someone deeply committed to human evolution, digital sovereignty, and ethical AI, I see tools like Lumo as more than just convenient—they’re necessary.
So tell me: Would you trust an AI that works for you, not against you?
👇 Try it. Explore it. Then let me know what you think.🔗 lumo.proton.me
Stay curious, stay private.
German article: https://www.it-boltwise.de/proton-stellt-datenschutzfreundlichen-ki-chatbot-lumo-vor.html
Peter Dilg
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